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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

TELL ME AN ENDING x THE ONE x STATION 11 #QuestPit #W #a #lf #t #s Hungry for money, 4 artists join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their heads & the scientists behind it vanish, the 4 must untangle the case—or face permanent brain damage LLL Cheshire & Ascent Novel Prize

An evocative moodboard on a 3x3 grid depicting the following:
- first column: two drawings of human brains and an MRI machine
- second column: a starling among blossoms, a dramatic frog statuette, a hand grasping forget-me-nots
- third column: photos and a camera, art and brushes, a person holding a memory card

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

#posterpit #a #t #spf #sf #w TELL ME AN ENDING x THE ONE x STATION ELEVEN A literary spec thriller featuring people in their 30s seeking art & kinship in a digital age & confronting their buried memories

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I'm super happy to announce The Forgetting Study is also a Top 100 pick in the Ascent Novel Prize!

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

So very happy to announce that The Forgetting Study is one of the Top 100 Cheshire Novel Prize #CNP2025 entries!

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Many many thanks to everyone who supported me during #PosterPit! No bites (yet), but I had fun socializing, looking at all those gorgeous posters, and making some of my own. Here's to happy writing! 🥂

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

#PosterPit #q #a #spf #t Deep within the murky Roman baths, a murder keeps looping: same method & motive, hundreds of years apart. Now a detective & a plant lady must solve it & break the loop—before the world rewrites itself & they're the next victims.

A poster for the metafictional thriller The Palimpsest, featuring a typing machine, a pair of binoculars showing the two main characters, a pitch, some taglines and a distorted reflection of a bathhouse.

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

TELL ME AN ENDING x John Marrs #QuestPit #W #a #t #s #lf Hungry for money, four 30+year-olds join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their head & the scientists behind it vanish, the four must find a way to remove it—or deal with fake memories forever

A movie poster containing a pitch and photos of the four main characters

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

An agent's guide to THE PALIMPSEST, a murdery STRANGER THAN FICTION🔎 –94k high-concept/spec thriller –vibes of DARK x RECURSION –multi POV –lyrical writing –metafictional hook –book-within-a-book structure –Claymore Award finalist (literary category) #questpit #q #a #t #s #lf

$A dark, gloomy moodboard on a 3x3 grid depicting the following: - first column: two ancient bathhouses and an aqueduct - second column: an anxious man, a bathing woman, and a pair of hands covered in blood - third column: a torn book, a recursive fractal, and a person reflected in a puddle.$ Two moodboards back to back, one cozy and comfy for the plant lady, the other dark and mysterious for the detective. Underneath, two pitches for the book.

Two moodboards back to back, one cozy and comfy for the plant lady, the other dark and mysterious for the detective. Underneath, two pitches for the book.

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Just submitted my entry to the 2025 Claymore Award! Fingers crossed 🤞

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Belated thanks to everyone who supported me yesterday for #PopUpPit, especially since it was a last minute decision for me to do it! I hope you all had a lovely pitch event. See you in the query trenches!

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jerry from tom and jerry is standing on a stage and says thank you

ALT: jerry from tom and jerry is standing on a stage and says thank you

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

DARK x RECURSION but metafictional #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA Deep within the murky Roman baths, a murder keeps looping: same method & motive, hundreds of years apart. Now a detective & a plant lady must solve it & break the loop—before the world rewrites itself & they're the next victims.

Two moodboards back to back, one cozy and comfy for the plant lady, the other dark and mysterious for the detective.

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

TELL ME AN ENDING x John Marrs #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit Hungry for clout & money, four idiots in their thirties join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their head & the scientists behind it vanish, the four must find a way to remove it—or deal with fake memories forever

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Murdery STRANGER THAN FICTION #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #a Trapped in a plot hole by a writer with impostor syndrome, a detective & a plant lady must draft-&-time travel to 1900s Bucharest to solve the recurring crime in the Roman baths—before the writer erases her book.

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Just sent my last-minute entry to the Debut Dagger Award! Wish me luck! 🤞

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

TELL ME AN ENDING x John Marrs #QuestPit #w #t #spec Four 30yo drifting through life join a paid memory study for clout & money. When their new implant malfunctions & the clinic behind it vanishes, the four must find a way to remove it—or deal with fake memories forever.

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Thinking of trying #QuestPit tomorrow! I skipped January's pitch events, but I want to return in full force!

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

An agent's guide to THE PALIMPSEST, a murdery STRANGER THAN FICTION

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